Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – Insatiability
Insatiability (in Polish Nienasycenie) is a speculative fiction novel by the Polish writer, dramatist, philosopher, painter and photographer, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy). It is Witkiewicz’s third novel, considered by some to be his best.
Consisting of two parts — Przebudzenie (Awakening) and Obłęd (The Madness) — the novel takes place in the future, circa 2000. Following a battle, modeled after the Bolshevik revolution, Poland is overrun by the army of the last and final Mongol conquest. The nation becomes enslaved to the Chinese leader Murti Bing. His emissaries give everyone a special pill called DAVAMESK B 2 which takes away their abilities to think and to mentally resist. East and West become one, in faceless misery fueled by sexual instincts.
The book combines chaotic action with deep philosophical and political discussion, and predicts many of the events and political outcomes of the subsequent years, specifically, the invasion of Poland, the postwar foreign domination as well as the totalitarian mind control exerted, first by the Germans, and then by the Soviet Union on Polish life and art. (Wikipedia)
Read more about Witkiewicz’s artworks in our essay “Documenting Drugs” by Juliette Bretan